Municipality of Helmond: applying for an EU parking card for people with disabilities
Are you unable to walk far due to illness, impairment or disability and use a car as a driver or passenger? Then you may be eligible for a disabled parking card (GPK). This parking card allows you to park in disabled parking spaces close to facilities. The parking spaces are indicated by a traffic sign.
Please note. You can only apply for a disabled parking card if you live in the Netherlands and are registered with a municipality.
In the Municipality of Helmond, this card allows you to park in a disabled parking space for double the applicable hourly rate. On a disabled parking space, you can also use Gepast Parkeren. The condition is that you register your parking action via your mobile phone and not with the Gepast Parkeren parking card. More information on Gepast Parkeren can be found on the website below.
Please note that you pay the normal (full) parking rate on all other paid on-street parking spaces and on all (disabled) parking spaces in the municipal car parks in the centre of Helmond.
To assess whether you meet the conditions for a disabled parking badge, we request a medical opinion.
The conditions for a disabled parking card are:
- There is a demonstrable walking disability of a long-term nature
- You are unable (using the usual walking aids) to bridge a distance of 100 metres
- For a disabled passenger parking card, you are continuously dependent on the driver's assistance for door-to-door transport.
Drivers and passengers who are permanently wheelchair-bound are eligible for a disabled parking card.
Would you like to discuss whether you are eligible for a GPK? Then contact the Municipality of Helmond by telephone on 14 0492 (without area code) or email zorgpoort@helmond.nl. We will then make an appointment with you for an intake interview. After this interview, you will have the opportunity to submit an official application via the application form. A medical examination is always part of the application procedure.
A disabled parking card costs money. The cost for granting up to 1 year is €29.60. Granting for longer than 1 year costs €44.40 (rates 2023). In the first contact, the consultant will inform you of the exact cost.
The municipality will decide within 8 weeks of receiving your application. The municipality may extend this period once.
You can object to the decision on your application. Do this within 6 weeks. Do you then disagree with the decision on the objection? Then file an appeal with the court.
Questions about this topic?
Contact the Municipality of Helmond